I have also been invited recently but after doing some check plus the conservation here, I will not be attending. Attached below is a Wikipedia link to its reputation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIT_Life_Sciences

Hi Jessica

Recently I attended the WCGG-2013 in Dalian, China. It was Global Health Conference-2013 organized by BITs. It was a good conference and arrangements were quite nice. Everything took place according to the program schedule displayed on the conference website and many delegates and speakers were present for the conference. Actually six conferences were scheduled together at the same venue under the banner of Global Health Conference. As far as genuinity is concerned, I believe it is good. Yes they charge for a registration fee and in your case you got a discount that is good. They accommodated my wife also with me in the same package and I too got a discount from them. So sounds nice altogether :)

Gud Luck and regards

Dear Jessica

I also was invited twice by the same organizer to deliver talks, of course, on a different subject. But to my surprise, it was all fake. Please get in touch with at least a renowned speaker before making any payment.

Best

Dola.

Seems like a corporate event rather than a academic one. Specifically, one small company. BITeomics seems to be a China based biotech firm (seems legit). However, seems to be mainly known for work in the petrochemical industry, rather than cancer. Maybe they are diversifying.

Very stingy of them if they are asking you to pay to speak, though. There are certainly many much higher profile events in China compared to this.

Hi Jessica, I get this invitation now every year, but never attended it - I think it is very questionable that someone asks you to participate due to your achievement and experience to be an "invited speaker" and then wants you to pay for it. An invited speaker usually gets all the travel costs and lecture fee. Therefore, I am a "bit" sceptical. There also seems to be a similarity to another congress, but that other one appears to be real (withoput "BIT" and differently organized, but will be in Australia).

I know it from smaller conferences in biophysics that some of the speakers on the list (usually those who are not professor) can get on the speakers list with paying the fees. But for an academic conference, there is a need to be attractive for the participants, i.e. provide good research and not just sell an empty space on a speakers list. I think most conferences today are not very good, since there are too many. Only few, but very well known conferences are really good to attend. As an example, I really liked a Keystone meeting.

I cannot make my timetable work now to attend the conference anyway now. But this advice will help me as in future as I will probably get another invitation next year. Thanks for your comments.

I asked them now twice if they will cover my flight and housing and meeting costs... and paying me some fee, but they continue bothering me now with two people inviting me again and again, but not offering me any travel costs, but wanting to know my scientific field - why inviting me in the first place if they do not know at all what I did - to whom should my contribution then be of interest? It is clear for me that this is not a usual scientific meeting - and not organized by any worldwide scientific organization. I wonder if the mentioned (very few) professors really know that they are listed on that program - and if yes, if they really are aware about the strange concept of the meeting to invite randomly about just everyone and choose any field of topic... So, it seems some hotels have empty rooms and want them filled with anybody.

Just an update: they continue bothering me, but now offer a reduction... Still, I can not consider this as an "invitation" as speaker to a real scientific meeting. They offer a reduction, but do not even mention, on which topic I should speak - at least this sounds very strange to me. What should I or someone else then expect from other speakers?

Has anyone attended this congress? I got this invitation this year, the venue web-page looks professional but I am quite concerned about the quality. Can I listen to some important data/lectures  there? Or it is more of low profile? It is nice I could attend but I would like have a bit of good research to listen to.

Hi Anna 

Once you attend one time, you will get invitations from these group every week almost and they would keep you bothering about the consent and the speech title. Nobody would confirm if they are ready to pay for your travel, accommodation, registration etc. If you are inviting as a speaker, then you should arrange for their trip also. But it is not the case. 

Now in most of the cases, it has become like a business with lot of conferences being organised in every part of the world. So be cautious in choosing the venue (at least if the venue is good, so you have a good outing, haha) and obviously the scientific aspects related with the conference. If you ask about the profile, then the conference maintains the standards as per your selection of the package. Most of the times, they arrange five star hotels as venues and you get back the value for your money. As far as the scientific quality is concerned, it is better to communicate personally with the scientists listed as speakers to confirm if they are really coming to present the lecture or not. 

Regards 

Dear All,,

I am also having invitation from them for the last 2 years,, same package , different venues, pay all your cost ,

its seems its a marketing for tourism in their areas rather than real scientific activity,, so if you want to have small time out you may go ,, I don't think I am going ,, I may put money in real scientific activity and attend as participant rather than as a speaker and pay all the cost ,,I am apologizing to them now ,, I searched a lot to find one speaker confirming this activity as true,, nothing till now ,only dr. Harisingh is saying they are true

Best

I have also been invited recently but after doing some check plus the conservation here, I will not be attending. Attached below is a Wikipedia link to its reputation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIT_Life_Sciences

I have been invited and paid up the registration fees and accommodation fees Due to Medical council inspection I wont be attending .Asked for refund .Have doubts regarding authenticity 

I really wonder why there is no one out there to speak favorably for this group. So I now have doubts for anything they have to offer. Earlier in the year - after several emails - I gave them  a provisional 'yes' answer. If they are really what they said they are, then somebody should have scored them high here. So, going by these comments, I may have to reconsider my decision to attend!

I got invitation 2 days back for WCDD-2015 mentioning that they are inviting me as a speaker to share my research work . I am also confused and unable to decide what to do.

Hi, i have been invited for 2 conferences taking place in Nov. 2016, as invited speaker or chairman, but taking a look at their website the program is still empty and there is  no name of any of the speakers or presentation. There is only 1 email for contacting the organizing committee and I have serious doubt about the authenticity of all the conferences. Please be careful,

Best regards,

Arno

I was also invited to talk in the aquaculture conference they organize.

I will not even answer. Although I am a biologist, I am not an expert in aquaculture, so the fact that they contacted me seems at least peculiar.

I agree with Geert. And particularly this one is only business, not science.

I already attended once, will not ever do it again. It's all business not science

This seems to be a scam. Please don't pay BIT / Bitcongress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIT_Life_Sciences

https://scimedskeptic.wordpress.com/tag/fake-scientific-conferences-are-like-genuine-scientific-conferences/

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/27593/title/Conference-kerfuffle-hits-scientists/

Have just received an invitation for BIT’s 5th Annual World Congress of Food and Nutrition-2016. They mentioned very well my published papers related to the topic of conference. Their website looks good with a number of researcher around the globe as the Program Committee. However, doubts came in my mind when I learned from the web that "Participants are recommended to apply for a Tourist Visa. The organizing committee of WCFN-2016 cannot issue an official letters of invitation for a Business visa application due to Chinese regulations". Hence, I seek further info by google and found this discussion which is helpful. Thanks for sharing!

@Widiasuti Setyanningsih

When you go for applying VISA, the embassy would ask you to apply for the business visa as you are going for a conference. Instead you tell them that you are going for a conference. They don't need any official letter. The emails from organizers would be sufficient for approval of your VISA. Should be no problem with this one. 

@Alok Nahata

Yeah no problem. However, unusual thus looks suspicious ^^

I have just received the invitation to give oral presentation next year and wondering what to do. Lucky that I find this topic and get some more ideas about what is is. Thanks a lot everybody!!

Yeah I was I invited many times - I am Chinese by the way, therefore I can  easily tell they were fake conferences. I told them to remove me from their contacting list. Good luck.

I was invited multiple times and I believe these are predatory conferences. The problem of fake science is that it appears very similar to true ones.

The amount of fees and the persisting invitations indicate that this conference series is for commercial purpose rather than scientific.

I thought it would be good to share with your this link. How to identify the legitimacy of conferences?https://scholarlyoa.com/2016/06/23/proposed-criteria-for-identifying-predatory-conferences/

As Ahmed said these are called predatory conferences and these companies use the same approach as predatory journals. Sometimes they are the same companies. 

I suggest to take a look at the criteria and have them in mind

Regards,

IDF

I also have just received the invitation to present a speech. I was wondering what to do, but there is no doubt now: it is a predatory congress, just a business.  Thank you everybody for all your comments.

I recently received an invitation from the BIT's 10th Annual World Cancer Congress, Barcelona, Spain, to make an oral presentation related to one of my last publications.

Due to I had doubts about the reputation of this congress, I was searching for comments about it. 

I would like to say thank you for all your comments and make clear that it´s predatory meeting. I will be asking them to remove me from their mailing list.

Kind regards

Daniel

I'd welcome anyone interested in helping me learn more about this conference organiser to contact me via direct message. Thanks!

Asked a question about same/similar issue: cf.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Real_or_SCAM_Conference_Is_the_5th_Annual_Conference_ofAnalytiX2017_Fukuoka_Japanhttp_wwwbitcongresscom_analytix2017_a_legitimate_conference?_tpcectx=profile_highlights

but unfortunately nobody has given an answer there yet  ....  but I guess I found answers in this thread...Thank you.

PS: the latest "reminder"  for invitation is from today morning:

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e-mail: Mo 16.01.2017 05:04 

Mia

The 5th Annual Conference of AnalytiX 2017 (AnalytiX-2017)

Time: March 22-24, 2017

Venue: Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk, Fukuoka, Japan

Website: http://www.bitcongress.com/analytix2017

Dear Dr. Wolfgang MUSS ,

 Greetings from the program coordinators of the 5th Annual Conference of AnalytiX 2017! Please allow me to give you a brief update regarding the AnalytiX-2017.

 The 5th Annual Conference of AnalytiX-2017 (AnalytiX-2017) will take place during March 22-24, 2017, Fukuoka, Japan. On behalf of the organizing committee, it is an honor to welcome you to attend this meeting and present a speech on Cutaneous Ultrastructure Research... in Track 3: Advanced Microscopy and Imaging Technology at AnalytiX-2017.

 We just released a tentative scientific program, and welcome you to visit it by: http://www.bitcongress.com/Analytix2017/scientificprogram.asp

 Currently, we have received many speech applications. We are very grateful for the large amount of interest and continue to work hard to finalize a scientific program that will exceed expectations. Because there are only a few speaking opportunities left in some sessions, we encourage potential speakers to promptly send in the application to have a chance at getting one of the limited remaining spots.

So, if you have time and would like to attend this meeting, please forward the speech title and/or Abstract of your talk to me by [email protected] at your earliest convenience. As soon as we receive this information, we can then finalize the details of your presentation.

With the participation of outstanding international experts, we hope productive discussions would stimulate new creative ideas to translate new discoveries into better practice and application. AnalytiX-2017 will continue to build upon the success of past 4 years, offering a top-notch scientific program created by international experts in related fields.

Thank you for making a note of these reminders and we earnestly hope that you will be able join us and contribute to what is sure to be a useful and stimulating congress!

Sincerely Yours,

Ms. Mia Lee

Program Coordinator

The Organizing Committee of AnalytiX-2017

East Area, F11, Building 1,

Dalian Ascendas IT Park,

1 Hui Xian Yuan,

Dalian Hi-tech Industrial Zone, LN 116025, China

Tel: 0086-411-84799609-816

Fax: 0086-411-84796897

Email: [email protected]

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I also got invited, but I knew from the beginning that this is a predatory conference.

Regards/Trina

Dear Dr. Trina Tallei,

I'm writing to follow-up my last invitation as below, would you please give me a tentative reply? Thank you very much. I apologize for the inconvenience if the letter disturbed you more than once.

We are proud to announce that BIT’s 9th Annual World DNA Day (WDD-2018) ( life sciences conference) will be held on April 25-27, 2018 in Dalian, China. We cordially welcome you to be the chair/speaker at Symposium 332: DNA and RNA while presenting about Putative DNA-dependent RNA polymerase in Mitochondrial Plasmid of?Paramecium caudatum Stock GT704. For more information, please visit the conference website http://www.dnaday.com/2018/programlayout.asp

Nobel Laureates of WDD-2018

Dr. Edvard Ingjald Moser,  Professor and Director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at NTNU, Norway Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2014

Dr. Aaron Ciechanover, Distinguished Research Professor, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel

Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry, 2004

WDD, as one of the BIT’s branded conferences, had been successfully organized in Dalian, Xi’an and Nanjing in last eight years. To update the frontiers of life sciences and Industrial Biotechnology, WDD-2018 comes to Dalian City again. We believe worldwide scientists and biotech entrepreneurs in Bioscientific fields will create huge opportunities for the famous coastal City by showcasing the growth and breakthrough of life sciences at a time when so many new therapies and diagnostic evaluations are available. The conference has broad public support and has the additional goal of spreading and increasing the understanding of modern biological sciences among the lay public. The idea exchanges are always helpful for generating positive impact on propelling the regional advancement of science and technology.

BIT’s 8th Annual World DNA Day (WDD-2017), was successfully held in Hilton Xi’an, China during April 25-27, 2017. Almost 1000 participants from over 32 countries and regions shared the details of their research during the sessions. It was sure to announce it gained a great success.

WDD-2018 will be held in April 25-27, 2018 in Dalian, China, is to follow up the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the publication of DNA double-helix structure in Nature from April 25, 1953 by Dr. James Watson and Dr. Francis Crick.

We expect your precious comments or suggestions; also your reference to other speakers will be highly appreciated. We look forward to receiving your replies on the following questions:

1. What is the title of your speech?

2. Do you have any suggestions about our program?

This meeting will be a dynamic forum for geneticists, biotech entrepreneurs and other life scientist. The conference will provide participants a face-to-face platform to exchange ideas, share update breakthroughs and promising solutions to most important issues in the area.

The venue adds an important attraction to the congresses. Dalian is a beautiful city with an excellent climate and unparalleled hospitality. It is the flagship city of the wealthiest region of China, leader in economy, art, design, industry and lifestyle, a must visit for travelers and an endless source of inspiration. April - Cherry Blossom Season, we cordially invite to join a Tech Tour to experience traditional Chinese culture, and to enjoy the delicious food of Dalian.

Finally, we hope and trust that you will find the conference and your visit to the very beautiful and exciting city of Dalian, in April 2018 both valuable and enjoyable!

Sincerely Yours,

Ms. Jessica Yang Organizing Committee of WDD-2018 BIT Congress Inc.  East Wing, 11F, Dalian Ascendas IT Park,  No. 1 Hui Xian Yuan,  Dalian Hi-tech Industrial Zone,  LN 116025, P.R.China Tel: 0086-411-84799609-826 Fax: 0086-411-84799629 Email:  [email protected]

Hi Trina

I also get many invitations from them. As a matter of fact, I attended once too in Dalian. Conference actually takes place at the venue and delegates are also around but they just need money for everything from registration to hotel (if you opt for it). They have packages, you can select. They provide the facilities you select in the package. Even the hotel is five star. No problem.

If you are interested in sight seeing, you can go separately. NO need to pay them unnecessary.

Now whenever I get an invitation, I just ask them to pay for my visit and cover all my expenses right from the air ticket to accommodation. Then they will not bother you except the one mail that they cannot do this because of financial constraints and all excuses. I just write them if you want to call me as a speaker, just arrange my visit. That's it.

Next time u get an invite, try this. Hopefully you may get a sponsored trip. :)

Regards

Yes its true they are just cheaters, I have attended to WCC 2107 Barcelona, Spain. Once I went their I found that my Abstract was not in the proceeding booklet. Which they later admitted as their mistake and promised me to refund my registration fee, which I haven't received yet. It is fraud institution for sure.

Honestly added:

Use the ResearchGate 'SEARCH' function (cf. search field in the middle most upper edge of the/this RG's webpage):

ENTER e. g.: fake conference ,

which results in creating the URL:

https://www.researchgate.net/search.Search.html?type=researcher&query=Fake%20conferences

(results in the first place are from archive: “ „Researchers“: but: find the menu line on top of the search results the "categories" :

=== Researchers - Projects – Publications – Questions – Jobs – Institutions - Departments ===

Therefore: click alternatively into one of the possibilities shown and get – after some second – other or similar results as they are archived and available in ResearchGate.

Especially if you search in ‚Questions‘ only for

| fake conference |

you can see that invitations to such (fake) conferences (either to participate, or to present a lecture, speech, workshop, etc.) ARE issues nowadays….

Out of the many results as collected in RG-"Questions" I would like to point you to my relatively actual Q and comments on: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Real_or_SCAM_Conference_Is_the_5th_Annual_Conference_ofAnalytiX2017_Fukuoka_Japanhttp_wwwbitcongresscom_analytix2017_a_legitimate_conference?

Best wishes and hoping for any presumptive - because „invited“ - „conference participant“ not to get mousetrapped….

Same mails two years in a row. They even wrote me to linked in as Dr. James Angel. Scam

Dear Adomas, thank you for your assessment.

Best Regards, also to "Dr. James Angel" :D

Update

The adage from Groucho Marx is appropriate here: " PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.”

I have been also recently invited to the conference that is going to be held in Barcelona, but as it is said in previous answers it seems to be predatory conference.

I recently received an invitation from them but after a 5 minutes search on google, it looks pretty much a predatory conference. Will decline the offer